Here are some Rainbows that have received certificates this week. The first one is for following our golden rule "look after property" and they were awarded the certificate because they always help tidy away, even if they haven't used those resources, and they take great pride in how our classroom looks. The Incredible Me! certificate was awarded for excellent singing and signing when we were practising our Nativity.
Keep it up! What stars you are!
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Rainbows have been using dice to subitise - without counting the spots they can say the number automatically when it is rolled. They have been introduced to a number track with numbers 1-10. They have been learning to roll the dice and count on the track that number, then roll the dice again and count on that number. The challenge was to land exactly on ten, so if they rolled too many they had to roll again. The Rainbows also had to say the number they landed on, and how many more they needed to land on number ten.
Their extra challenge after the lesson was to work with a partner and try to beat them to score ten first! They had their own colour counter and had to roll the dice, count on that number and beat them to it! As the Rainbows are so confident at turn taking they were able to complete the game! Well done Rainbows! Today the Rainbows explored musical instruments again. They were learning the names of some instruments including triangles, bells, wood blocks, maracas, drums and claves.
The Rainbows had fun singing some nursery rhymes and playing their instrument to the beat. They revisited their learning from a couple of weeks ago and played loud, quiet, fast and slow! They had a turn using different instruments and explored how to play them. These instruments will be in their provision so they can practise these skills and show their knowledge. One of our activities in provision was playing Bingo! The focus of the game was to learn to take turns and to wait for their turn. The Rainbows waited patiently and helped explain the rules to other children that joined their game.
It was lovely to see them being patient, kind and hard working to match pictures to their game board. It is not always easy to take turns, but it is very easy to take a sneaky peek at a card to try and win the game! Well done Rainbows for excellent listening too! The Rainbows were very excited to see a change in the weather today and loved wrapping up warm and exploring in the ice and frost.
First we talked about how the seasons were changing from Autumn to Winter and what we need to do before we are ready to go outside. The Rainbows know that we need to wrap up warm because the temperature is dropping and the weather is getting colder. They practised putting on their coats and doing them up, singing our song to help them. Lots of children can now do this independently! They put on their hat and scarf and had a really good try at putting on their mittens or gloves. Outside they loved exploring and used their feet and fingers. They listened to the noise the frost made when they walked on the grass and said it sounded "crunchy." They drew some pictures and sounds with their finger in the frost and found some ice. The Rainbows know that ice is made when water freezes and were able to say that it had "frozen." They said the ice felt "cold" and "hard" and one of the Rainbows said it was slippy. They were amazed to see that it disappeared on their fingers and explained that it "melted and turned to water" Some of the Rainbows said it was because their hands were hot so it melted. Here we are exploring! This week has been Road Safety Week and the Rainbows have been taking part in lots of different activities. They have been learning to stop, look, listen and think before they cross the road. Please see the photos linked to the previous post to see the Rainbows being safe and crossing the road. They know that a lollipop person helps them to cross the road and zebra crossings and traffic lights help to keep them safe. They also know that crossing between parked cars is very dangerous as you can't see the road clearly to check for traffic. The Rainbows also learnt about being safe whilst riding a bike. They wore helmets to protect their head and talked about riding at a safe speed. They also made or coloured some road signs which they later used in their play.
Later in the week the Rainbows focused their learning on this terms core book Peace at Last. They mixed primary colours in the painting area to make secondary colours and painted a blanket for the bears in the story. They sorted activities into day and night time things, including getting ready for bed, having breakfast and going to school. They also focused on the words first, next and last and chose pictures of their morning and evening routing and ordered them. Some Rainbows played a matching pairs game with their friends to support their turn taking and they also counted the holes in the Numicon and threaded the correct number of beads onto a lace attached to it. They also practised some secret writing by writing sounds or words in white crayon and painting over it with watercolour paints. What a busy week the Rainbows have had. Here are some of our fun activities! We have been reading this half term's core book "Peace at Last." The book is set at night time when the lights are on in the bear's house and they carry a lamp up the stairs. We know lights cast shadows. This week we made our own shadow tubes.
The children had to roll card and stick the end down so it didn't unroll. It was tricky to stick the tape on both of the sides across the end of the cylinder so it didn't open up! We needed to put a few pieces of tape to keep it secure. We had to carefully stick the cellophane to the end of the tube, again sticking the tape on both the tube and the cellophane so it didn't spring off. We also practised cutting tape with scissors trying not to lose the end or drop the roll on the floor! We are becoming more confident with holding scissors correctly. It was a very tricky activity but we kept persevering and some of us worked together with a friend. We then drew a picture on the cellophane and tested our shadow tube with a torch! It was lovely to see a Rainbow make their own shadow tube at home and bring it into school to show us! The photos of the shadows did not come out very well and were much clearer on the wall! This week in Literacy we have been learning to use a phoneme frame. This is building on our learning during phonics lessons. We know that we can count the number of spaces in a phoneme frame and know how many sounds are in the word shown in the accompanying picture. We put up that amount of "Fred Fingers" and pinch each finger as we say a sound in the word. We can then either find a letter and place it in the phoneme frame or write sounds in the phoneme frame to write a word. We then segment the sounds and blend them together ("Fred Talk read the word") to read the correct word.
We have also been "Fred Talking" to read words and match the word to the correct picture. We have been applying our phonics knowledge learnt in Read Write Inc. sessions to do this. Here are some photos of our fantastic work! We would like to share with you how we celebrate achievements at Park Street. We ALWAYS celebrate when children achieve something, no matter how big or small. Whether it is lots of praise, sharing photos or examples of their work or homework, showing swimming certificates or giving out certificates/awards, speaking to parents at home time, there is always some celebrating happening in class!
Here are some of the children that have achieved awards this week. Golden Book certificate. These are for a child who in particular has stood out for following this weeks whole school golden rule focus. This is awarded by the class teacher/s. Dojo certificates. Dojo points are awarded to children for being kind, helpful, trying their best, outstanding behaviour, sharing, tidying away, looking after property and lots more things! After the children gain a certain amount, 25, 50, 150, 200, 250, they get a certificate and reward time taking part in a fun activity. These are awarded by all staff members in class. You can see some of the Rainbows taking part in their special activity below. They made some slime! Incredible Me! certificates. These are for doing something incredible during learning time and for acts of kindness and other wonderful things. These are awarded by any member of staff in school. Phone calls home. Sometimes staff may also make phone calls home so achievements can be celebrated at home too! These are made by the class teacher/s. Lunchtime award. This is awarded to children for doing something outstanding at lunchtime, such as caring for others, sharing playground equipment, being a great listener and for other brilliant things. This is chosen by lunchtime supervisor staff. This week has been road safety week. The Rainbows know they need to stop, look, listen and think before they cross the road. They know they need to keep themselves and others safe so no one gets hurt. They know roads can be dangerous. The Rainbows had lots of fun learning the Road Safety rap from Twinkl to help them be safe.
The Rainbows practised crossing the school drive following the instructions in the rap and walking slowly in case they tripped and fell. Well done for keeping so safe Rainbows! |
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